Topsoil properties and abundance of Acari and Collembola species in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Caruso, Tancredi, Borghini, Francesca, Bucci, Charlie, Colacevich, Andrea, Bargagli, Roberto
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: International Polar Year (2007-2008); ipy; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; International Polar Year; IPY; Terranova; Victoria Land; Mite
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786598; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786598

Soil fauna in the extreme conditions of Antarctica consists of a few microinvertebrate species patchily distributed at different spatial scales. Populations of the prostigmatic mite Stereotydeus belli and the collembolan Gressittacantha terranova from northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) were used as...